Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-05

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but have not yet seenred it, should do
90 at once. We hope to issue the
edition by the first proximo.
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nr. McGiynn,s Defiant Attitude.
The very comprehensive abstract
Of DIR. Nicely ms letter, telegraphed
to the HERALD, was the subject. OF
u niversal comment yesterday. The
letter is published in Henry Georges
paper, the Standard, and is reply to
the public statement OF Archbishop
Corr igan in relation to the contro-
versv between DIR. McGlynn and
his ecclesiastical superiois. 1t was
surmised that the Doctors long ST.
hence meant that he had dutifully
submitted to their authority and
tn at he had quietly acquiesced in his
deposition from the rectorship OF st.
Stephens. But his reply places a
very different face on the situation,
and shows that the reverend Doctor
has as ssumed an attitude of firmness
and determination that cannot but
lead to wider division between him
self and the hierarchy which has un-
dertaken to silence and to discipline
him. 1t seems that as early as Au-
gust, 1882, Cardinal Simeoni, who is
the Secretary, We believe, OF the
Propaganda, and the mouthpiece in
these matters of the Vatican, had
complained to- Archbishop Corrigan
OF the stand DR.. McGlynn had pub
licly taken upon the Irish Land
League question and stigmatized the
doctrines espoused by him on this
subject as Containing propositions
directly contrary to the teachings OF
the Catholic Church." The Doctors
reply to this has no uncertain sound,
for he says the doctrines thus stigma
tied are those he held before and has
taught since. He then unequiv-
ocally endorses Henry Georges land
tn cory in these emphatic words: II
firm that while acknowledging the
right Of exclusive ownership in all
that is produced by human industry,
would at the same time compel
those who enjoy exclusively large
or choice portion of the bounties OF
nature to pay to the community an
equivalent in taxation to the full
amount OF the rental value" Being
so strongly imbued with these princi-
pies, the Doctor naturally developed
in to an active and outspoken disciple
of George, and very naturally gave
tha gentleman his powerful support
last Fall when he was running for
Mayor of New York. This provoked
. peremptory summons from Slime oni,
through Archbishop Corrigan, for the
of ,nding ecclesiastic tc'-epair to Rome
and give the Propaganda an account OF
his doctrines. He had been sum-
m oned before to explain his stand on
the Land League; but the Vatican
having modified its views upon the
Irish question, and the Doctor having
filled to obey the summons, nothing
further was urged at that time. The
second summons the Doctor per
EN- ptorily refuses to obey, and in this
letter he gives his reasons. lie places
his refusal on the ground that his doc
trines on the subject OF land arr
we'll known, and have been mad,
clear in speeches, interviews ant
public meetings. In order that ther'
may be no doubt about his attitad'
he re-affirms in the most positive Ian
guage, his opinions and principles
and denies the right Of Bishop, Propa
ganda or Pope to punish him for hi
actions as a man and a citizen eithe
in the Henry George municipal con
test or in any other political move
ment. He denies the right OF thos'
eccle sastical powers to censure o
punish him for his opinions on polit
ical economy, unless they can shov
that those opinions are clearly op
posed to the teachings of the Christ
ian religion, and repeats the warning
he gave during the municipal can
vass to Monsignor Preston and Other
ecclesiastical dignitaries of the grave
danger Of repeating the folly of theiI
predecessors in condemning scientific
truth as religious heresy-a folly OF
which they were guilty in condemning
Galileo and Copernicus. This lam
guage, from one in the robes, is not
only strong, but bold yet he reserves
- his Parthian arrow sentence
which rings with a sound similar to
that which vibrated from Luther's
theses when he nailed them to the
door Of the church Of Wittenberg.
He says: ut seems that they are